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half-timbered

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half-timbered, half-timber
(of a building, wall, etc.) having an exposed timber framework filled with brick, stone, or plastered laths, as in Tudor architecture

half-timbered [′haf ¦tim·bərd]
(building construction)
Pertaining to a timber frame building with brickwork, plaster, or wattle and daub filling the spaces between the timbers.

half-timbered
half-timbered
Descriptive of buildings of the 16th and 17th cent. which were built with strong timber foundations, supports, knees, and studs, and whose walls were filled in with plaster or masonry materials such as brick.


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The village of Birlstone is a small and very ancient cluster of half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of Sussex.
He was about to get down and lead his horse through the damp dirt of the hollow farmyard, shadowed drearily by the large half-timbered buildings, up to the long line of tumble-down dwelling-houses standing on a raised causeway; but the timely appearance of a cowboy saved him that frustration of a plan he had determined on,--namely, not to get down from his horse during this visit.
Sophie looked at the close turf, scarred only with last night's wheels, at two ruts which wound round a rickyard, and at the circle of still orchard about the half-timbered house.
 
 
 
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